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iOS App Development - 7 Things to Always Remember

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Vinay Bobade

Here are 8 important principles that you must definitely keep in mind:

 

Criticality of the Developer

In order to harness the full benefits of an iOS app development service, you will have to ensure that your developer/s are extremely critical, especially during the initial planning stages. The advice/inputs from experienced developers can prove to be crucial for the remainder of the process, as well as your app in the long run. This is because, the success of your app depends largely on the execution of early efforts such as conceptualization, wireframing, storyboarding, interface design, prototyping; among many others.

 

Experientially Sound

UX/UI design play a key role in building the platform on which your app stands. Well-researched UX, combined with well-designed UI, are the two factors that essentially guide the overall experience--and thereby response--of your user. Actions such as wireframing, site-mapping, storyboarding, etc. are highly essential when it comes to iOS app development.

 

User-Action Triggered Events

User action is the most basic element in the mobile application paradigm; the first step of any user’s journey through the application. When it comes to iOS app development, you must bear in mind that the platform is highly event-based/oriented. Events are basic activity units that are triggered by user actions; their implication being interaction that your users will have with the app. iOS app developers, therefore, give great importance to the ‘interactions aspect’ of app development.

 

Design, Patterns, and Problem-Solving

Design patterns are software presets that can be used by app developers to potentially sidestep certain recurring problems. These software aspects can be either of three types--structural, creational, behavioral--and are essential to the direction that the coding of the app takes in future.

 

Back to the Front

The UI design phase is always accompanied by software architecture planning, which involves testing the app for optimal functionality, as well as scalability. The developers create a functional model for your app using Foundation framework, Core Data framework, as well as APIs. This is essential for the functioning of the ‘controller’ layer of the app, which is developed using Objective C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch framework. When it comes to hiring iOS app development services, you must ensure that the back end of your code is stable enough to fully support the design and interaction elements (front).

 

Test, Test, Test, Repeat…

The success of your enterprise mobile app depends squarely on the users. And you will, therefore, in order to sway users in favor of your app, have to constantly subject your app to tests. Such testing will have to be carried out at various stages of the development process, depending on the depth/complexity of the app functionalities, and the overall app itself. This will enable you to gain precious data in the form of user feedback/opinions, which will, in turn, lead to the creation of a better app.

 

App Development Continues Post-Deployment

Once you set out on your iOS app development journey, there is no going back, or stopping; literally. In all truth, the completion of development and initial testing is just the beginning. It is from the launch, that your real app endeavor begins. Short of shutting down the entire app itself, there is no feasible scenario in which you will be able to let your app carry on in the market without constant attention. This is because the journey that your different users have with the app itself, will render several points of possible improvement--both big, and small. In order for your enterprise mobile app to give you the desired business results/impact; you will have to ensure that the app is constantly monitored.

 

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